[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Manual page breaks are killers for this type of formatting, as you've found.
I didn't realize you had page breaks rather than section breaks or I would
have predicted more confidently that that was the problem. As you've
realized, "Page break before" is the solution.

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WG; "LI" wrote in message
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It turned out to be exactly as you said - the breaks were formatted in the
Heading 1 style, and so a blank was duly placed in the field.

I've modified that style to have 'page break before'. It seems to
eliminate
problems both here and in other documents I've been fighting with.

You guys are life-savers! Thanks for all the help.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Make sure that the section breaks themselves (and the paragraph breaks
before them) are not formatted with the referenced style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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